DIY low ping... yes like (smoothping/gamepath/gamemax/lowping) ?

[Necuno]

is there any one with the knowledge of how to setup a linux both to achieve similar results as for example smoothping/gamepath/gamemax/lowping ?

i'm looking to do a setup for aoc since no-one is offering the service , besides it can be educational as well

 

[Tinuva]

Easy. Get a linux server, run a SSH server on it. If you want to limit them, run a simple bash script that will exit on key press after a long message. Set their accounts to use that bash script instead of bash itself.

I do it for myself on vps.hero.za.net.

 

[twiga]

1. Get a VPS from one of the european providers (I can recommend linode)
2. Install a distro of linux (takes a couple of minutes)
3. Install a socks app like freecap
4. Play!

 

[Necuno]

Easy. Get a linux server, run a SSH server on it. If you want to limit them, run a simple bash script that will exit on key press after a long message. Set their accounts to use that bash script instead of bash itself.

I do it for myself on vps.hero.za.net.

xlshosting.nl ?

 

[davemc]

Step 1 : Find a VPS hosting company near the game server you want to connect to.
Step 2 : Pay the buggers.
Step 3 : Install SSH on server on Hosted VPS.
Step 4 : Install plink on your computer and use it to use your SSH link.

Now start experimenting with different SSH protocol versions and such.

 

[Necuno]

Step 1 : Find a VPS hosting company near the game server you want to connect to.
Step 2 : Pay the buggers.
Step 3 : Install SSH on server on Hosted VPS.
Step 4 : Install plink on your computer and use it to use your SSH link.

Now start experimenting with different SSH protocol versions and such.

thanx. got that. just looking for a tiny/mini vps in uk/europe that is at least around the R70 mark and not R100+

 

[Tinuva]

xlshosting.nl ?

Correct. Use paypal to pay for it, so works out relatively easy.

 

[Necuno]

ok which linux os... suppose rather should ask which one easier ubunutu/debian then ?

CentOS 5.4 64bit
Elastix VOIP in a Box
Fedora Core 12 64bit
Debian 5.0.3 64bit
Ubuntu 9.04 64bit
CentOS 5 LxAdmin

...nothing like google to get how to's

 

[Tinuva]

I personally chose CentOS 5.x x64, but Ubuntu would be the easiest by far.


Here is what my /etc/passwd file look like for the proxy user:

be ~ # cat /etc/passwd | grep proxyuser1
proxyuser1:x:5005:5005::/home/proxyuser1:/usr/local/sbin/bashpause

And the contents of the script he has as his shell:

be ~ # cat /usr/local/sbin/bashpause
#!/bin/bash
# init
function pause(){
   read -p "$*"
}


echo "You can now use the proxy to connect to your game."
echo ""
echo ""






# other stuff
pause 'Press any key to continue...'

So basically when the user connect, they can't do anything one can usually do as a user on a nix box. They connect, get the message, if they press any key the connection drops since the shell exits.

I don't really limit anything on my box for outgoing connections, but again I don't have many users on my box and will know who leeched if it became a problem.

 

[avert]

also look at implementing ssh-hpn patch on openssh.Helps with throughput significantly.

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

 

[Tinuva]

Looks great, except its for throughput not latency. Generally most games shouldn't hit that buffer limit.

 

[Necuno]

thnx Tinuva. going try this near end of the month

 

[avert]

oh yeah dont use putty either. made me lag while in 25mans for some reason(yes it was putty, not another reason)

torrent some version of securecrt. works well

 

[avert]

Looks great, except its for throughput not latency. Generally most games shouldn't hit that buffer limit.

probably doesn't effect anything, but it makes me feel good on the inside.

 

[Necuno]

quick Q, how much ram should the vps have for just ssh server ? 128 be enough ?

 

[Tinuva]

128mbit is more than enough. If you run ONLY SSH and some iptable firewall rules and maybe fail2ban (helps prevent password bruteforce attacks on SSH) even 32mb would be fine.

Just don't run disk i/o intensive applications ect on the box, because then memory cache starts eating in as well as the applications themselves. My vps runs 128mb ram and gives me latencies of around 220ms

 

[Necuno]

128mbit is more than enough. If you run ONLY SSH and some iptable firewall rules and maybe fail2ban (helps prevent password bruteforce attacks on SSH) even 32mb would be fine.

Just don't run disk i/o intensive applications ect on the box, because then memory cache starts eating in as well as the applications themselves. My vps runs 128mb ram and gives me latencies of around 220ms

thanx bud

 

[Necuno]

aaa sexy the tunnel is up now i just get a change to test it with conan

 

[Necuno]

also look at implementing ssh-hpn patch on openssh.Helps with throughput significantly.

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

i got as far as to un-bziping the .bz file into a .sd file then not sure what to do with centos as it doesn't have swinstall.

Hello Sunny,

Download:
http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/openssh-4.6p1-11.00.sd.bz

Unzip openssh-4.6p1-11.00.sd.bz --> openssh-4.6p1-11.00.sd

# cd /tmp
# swinstall -s /tmp/openssh-4.6p1-11.00.sd

Thanks

...some odd reason i had/could only yum to openssh 4.3 and was getting this one to do the patch. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/openssh-4.3p2-11.00.sd.bz

:edit
seems i got the wrong thing there and should rather see if i can get it to a version they a "gzip patch" for.

script

thanx going to have a look at that

 

[avert]

yeah you need get openssh source ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/
then apply the patch, and ./configure,make,make install. but as someone said this probably isnt needed